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The fact that they’d be all too happy to keep cashing the federal government’s checks.

Private institutions have every right to do what they want within the confines of the law. But the second you accept taxpayer dollars — and in Harvard’s case, billions of taxpayer dollars — you’re no longer an entirely private institution. You’re private, but with a public backer. You’re private, but with a public credit card. You’re private, with a sugar daddy in government.

And we all know that sugar daddies don’t give away their money for free.

What makes this even more absurd is that Harvard doesn’t even need the money! The university has an endowment of approximately $53 billion, which is more than the gross domestic product of most countries. Given their stunning wealth, you think they’d be willing to put their money where their mouth is and refuse the money of a supposedly education- controlling authoritarian regime who is daring to care about Jews being hounded on campus?

Well, no. They still want that sweet, sweet federal government dime. And that gives the game away.

They could stand on their own two feet (like other truly private universities in the United States) and therefore earn the right to forge their own path. But if Harvard wants to keep its sugar daddy in Washington, D.C., they’re going to have to decide whether or not they want to follow the sugar daddy’s rules.

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